Hydroxychloroquine claims during early pandemic earn French Doc two year medicine ban.
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Over three decades, changes to organ allocation policies were associated with reduced waitlist mortality and increased rates of liver transplant among children with pediatric acute liver failure, according to research in JAMA Surgery.
“Pediatric acute liver failure is a rapidly progressive disease that occurs in otherwise healthy children,” Juliet Emamaullee, MD, PhD, FRCS, FACS, study author and research director in the division of abdominal organ transplantation at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, told Healio. “Up to 25% will require emergency liver transplant. How
On Feb. 16, HHS, through its Office for Civil Rights and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, published its final rule amending federal regulations protecting confidentiality of substance use disorder treatment records.
The final rule modified 42 Code of Federal Regulations Part 2 to align certain aspects of the regulations with HIPAA and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act.
The Part 2 amendments aim to increase coordination among providers, strengthen the confidentiality of Part 2 records through enforcement, and improve health
Use of glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists was associated with a 19% reduction in risk for glaucoma in patients with type 2 diabetes, with longer use extending the protective association, according to a study in Ophthalmology.
“Glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs), commonly prescribed for the management of type 2 diabetes and obesity, recently have gained attention for their role in facilitating retinal neuroprotection, which may prevent glaucoma development and progression,” Siar Niazi, MD, of the department of cardiology at North Zealand Hospital in Denmark,
Most people in the United States hospitalized with COVID-19 are likely to be aged older than 65 years or have not been vaccinated, according to a study.
“Hospitalization due to COVID-19 has remained a public health concern since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic,” Christopher A. Taylor, PhD, epidemiologist in the Coronavirus and Other Respiratory Viruses Division in the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, and colleagues wrote in the study, published in MMWR.
“Persons of all ages remain at risk for COVID-19-associated hospitalization. Among
BARCELONA, Spain — In this Healio Video Perspective from the Euretina congress, Timothy L. Jackson, PhD, MBChB, discusses phase 2b trial results of sozinibercept for neovascular age-related macular degeneration.
Sozinibercept (Opthea) targets VEGF-C and VEGF-D and is meant to be used in combination with the VEGF-A-suppressing drugs ranibizumab or aflibercept. In the trial, two different doses of sozinibercept were used in combination with ranibizumab and showed superior efficacy with the higher dose as compared with ranibizumab monotherapy.
“It was exciting to see a drug that was
Falling was associated with an increased risk for a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease or other dementias in older adults, according to a recent analysis in JAMA Network Open.
Falls are the leading cause of injury among adults aged 65 years and older, with one in four older adults — over 14 million — reporting falling annually, according to the CDC.
“We want to understand why falls happen, and also what care older adults need to maximize their quality of life after a fall,” Molly Jarman, PhD, MPH, an assistant professor of surgery at Harvard University, told Healio.
Patients with scalp and palmoplantar psoriasis treated with bimekizumab had a high rate of clearance maintained through 4 years of treatment, according to a poster presented at the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology Congress.
“Scalp and palmoplantar psoriasis and psoriatic changes in the nails can have a large impact on functional ability and health-related quality of life; these are referred to as high-impact areas,” Joseph F. Merola, MD, MMSc, chair of dermatology at the University of Texas Southwestern, and colleagues wrote.
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The Bascom Palmer Eye Institute at University of Miami Miller School of Medicine has received $4.7 million from NIH to create imaging techniques that will detect changes in capillary function and help diagnose cerebral small vessel disease.
According to a university press release, Jianhua “Jay” Wang, MD, PhD, professor of ophthalmology at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, will lead a team of scientists, clinical researchers and computer experts in this effort.
“Using the eye as a window to the central nervous system, Dr. Wang has assembled a multidisciplinary team to create an
The number of pertussis cases in the United States has quadrupled over the last 12 months, according to the CDC, raising questions as to what is behind the sudden, significant spike.
The CDC reports 17,579 cases of pertussis in 2024 as of Oct. 5, compared with 3,962 reported cases through the same date in 2023 — a nearly fivefold increase year over year — which the agency said is higher than was seen in 2019, before the COVID-19 pandemic.
In addition to outbreaks in the U.S., pertussis cases have also increased this year in Brazil, Mexico and Peru amid declines in vaccination